{"id":19688,"date":"2018-03-05T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:34:53","slug":"tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Solar Feed-In Tariff For Tasmania Soon(ish)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19689\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19689\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/solar-tariff-tasmania.jpg\" alt=\"Solar feed in tariffs in Tasmania\" width=\"700\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/solar-tariff-tasmania.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/solar-tariff-tasmania-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/solar-panel-roof-energy-alternative-1329982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> sdblack0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Liberals have been returned to power in Tasmania &#8211; and the party has previously stated it wants to boost the uptake of small scale solar energy systems in the state.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/tas\/\">solar feed in tariff in Tasmania<\/a> is currently a whisker over 8.9c per kilowatt hour for electricity exported to the mains grid.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Hodgman Government&#8217;s energy-related election commitments was to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tas.liberal.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/Tasmanian%20First%20Energy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review and reshape<\/a>&#8221; (PDF) the FiT in order to incentivise further installations and &#8220;suitably reward&#8221; those with systems already installed. The review will be conducted in the next 6 months and new arrangements implemented by January next year.<\/p>\n<p>The review process will no doubt be watched closely by Tasmanians who installed solar panels prior to September 2013. Those lucky folks were grandfathered under a 1:1 rate (around 28c), which ends on December 31 this year. However, one of the catches of keeping that rate is that they haven&#8217;t been able to upgrade their systems.<\/p>\n<p>Up until 2013, a popular system size was 1.5kW due to the way Australia&#8217;s major solar subsidy at the time was structured. These days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/5kW\/\">5kW solar systems<\/a> are the most common size for homes. SolarQuotes&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/aussii-solar-report-feb18-mb0448\/\">auSSII report<\/a> covering January indicated 68% of Tasmanians submitting for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/quote\/\">solar quote<\/a> who specified a system size were wanting pricing on a 5kW array. There were zero requests for pricing on 1.5 and 2kW systems.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the grandfathered 1:1 feed in tariff rate could see significant system upgrade activity in Tasmania as solar owners look to getting more from their valuable rooftop real estate. According to the most recent data available from Australia&#8217;s Clean Energy Regulator, 31,107 small scale (&lt;100kW) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar power systems<\/a> are installed across Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmanians without systems interested in going solar but who are finding funding the acquisition a challenge may want to take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-loans-tasmania-mb0018\/\">Tasmanian Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme<\/a> (TEELS). It provides 36-month interest free loans for items including solar panels and\/or battery storage. There&#8217;s no indication funding has run out yet, but the scheme closes in May this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Liberal Solar Commitments<\/h2>\n<p>Aside from the feed-in tariff review, the Liberal Government has also committed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delivering a $300,000 Community Solar and Energy Efficiency Package that will benefit 18 community groups and clubs around Tasmania.<\/li>\n<li>Investing $200,000 towards establishing a solar powered micro-grid pilot in the village of Nubeena on the Apple Isle&#8217;s west coast.<\/li>\n<li>A $6.25 million energy package for farmers, including assistance to install solar power through the Agri-Growth Concession loan scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Hodgman Government has set a goal of Tasmania having the lowest regulated electricity prices in Australia and to become 100 per cent energy self-sufficient by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberals have been returned to power in Tasmania &#8211; and the party has previously stated it wants to boost the uptake of small scale solar energy systems in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Better Solar Feed-In Tariff For Tasmania Soon(ish)?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Liberals have been returned to power in Tasmania - and the party has previously stated it wants to boost the uptake of small scale solar energy systems in the state.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Better Solar Feed-In Tariff For Tasmania Soon(ish)?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Liberals have been returned to power in Tasmania - and the party has previously stated it wants to boost the uptake of small scale solar energy systems in the state.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-04T20:34:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/solar-tariff-tasmania.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"414\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"A Better Solar Feed-In Tariff For Tasmania Soon(ish)?\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-04T20:34:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/\"},\"wordCount\":456,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tasmania-solar-tariff-mb0489\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/solar-tariff-tasmania.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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